Miryam Lakritz Quotes & Sayings

Even in the best, most friendly and simplest relations of life, praise and commendation are essential, just as grease is necessary to wheels that they may run smoothly. — Leo Tolstoy

The future belongs to those who see possibilities before they become obvious. — John Sculley

God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me. — Johnny Hunt

I get ticked off a lot because I don't think she [Faith Hill] gets the respect she deserves. I tell her all the time, "If you were 300 pounds and dog ugly, people would think you were the greatest singer in the world." They have the tendency to look at her and never really listen to her. The reason it works is she's a fantastic artist. It's almost embarrassing for me to sing with her sometimes. — Tim McGraw

Personal publicity is apt to be dangerous to any writer's integrity; for the moment he begins to fancy himself as quite a person, a taint creeps into his work. — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

I tried to be really tough when I was younger. I felt I had to stand up for myself. I never felt like I fit in. — Missy Peregrym

If I had learned anything from this past year, it is that despair is love's fiercest enemy. — Susan Meissner

I have finally become my own genre, and now that's what publishers want. I have a wonderful publisher now, Mulholland, very innovated, very fine people working there. — Joe R. Lansdale

Presumably all obsessions are extreme metaphors waiting to be born. That whole private mythology, in which I believe totally, is a collaboration between one's conscious mind and those obsessions that, one by one, present themselves as stepping-stones. — J.G. Ballard

There are four principal pathways that lead to enlightement: The yoga of love, the yoga of service, the yoga of knowledge, and the yoga of mysticism. — Frederick Lenz

The function of the well-intentioned individual, acting in isolation, is to formulate or disseminate theoretical truths. The function of the well-intentioned individuals in association is to live in accordance with those truths, to demonstrate what happens when theory is translated into practice, to create small-scale working models of the better form of society to which the speculative idealist looks forward. — Aldous Huxley

Death is the next step after the pension-it's perpetual retirement without pay. — Jean Giraudoux

If you've been doing all you can and it's not happening for you, go out and have you a good old time. Put on your sexy dress and move on. — Beyonce Knowles

You just want something else that someone else has, but that doesn't mean what you have isn't beautiful, because people always want what you have, and you always want what they have - no one is ever 100 per cent like, 'Yes, I'm the bomb dot com - from head to toe!' — Rihanna

That's what makes a fighter. I got dropped and I got back up, and I found a way to get the win. — Andre Ward